Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news
From: "Peter Armstrong" <hanno@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Multiple Font IDs
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:13:16 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
Lines: 79
Message-ID: <ant4ts$mrm11@www.netyaroze-europe.com>
References: <anqhvl$mrm8@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <ans97q$mrm9@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <ant22m$mrm10@www.netyaroze-europe.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-674.cheetah.dialup.pol.co.uk
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

"Andrew Murray" <sckoobs@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ant22m$mrm10@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> Thanks Peter,
>
> Thats done the trick!
>
> FntLoad was messing it up, I think... but should it really matter?

FntLoad loads the font pattern to vram and also initialises the print
streams, so the second call is closing the first stream you opened.

> FntFlush(Gfx.FntID[0]); and FntFlush(Gfx.FntID[1]); seem to have done the
> trick but I was under the impression that -1 cleared all font calls to all
> IDs. Oh well. I had a look at the libref and it says that up to 8 separate
> fnt ids are supported.

I thought the same so I'm a bit confused there myself. :)

Peter

> It works!
>
> Andrew.
> "Peter Armstrong" <hanno@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:ans97q$mrm9@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> > I had a quick play with this and it looks like it's the second FntLoad
> > that's causing the problem, try calling it just the once. Also flush the
> > streams individually, FntFlush(-1) doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > "Andrew Murray" <sckoobs@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:anqhvl$mrm8@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> > > Hey Dudes,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to have multiple fonts open to the screen at one time?
> > >
> > > I am trying to create two font IDs, one is located on the top half of
> the
> > > screen (at 320x256 PAL res) and the other in the bottom half. The code
> > > segments of interest are as follows:
> > >
> > > In Graphics.c:
> > >
> > > int LoadFont(int y1, int width, int height)
> > > {
> > >  FntLoad(960,256);
> > >  return(FntOpen(16, y1, width, height, 0, 512));
> > > }//loadfont
> > >
> > > In Main.c:
> > >
> > >  Gfx.FntID[0] = LoadFont(0, SCRNW, 127);
> > >  Gfx.FntID[1] = LoadFont(128, SCRNW, 127);
> > >
> > > And later in Main.c:
> > >
> > >  FntPrint(Gfx.FntID[0], "Frame: %d\n", frameNumber);
> > >  FntPrint(Gfx.FntID[1], "Frame: %d\n", frameNumber);
> > >
> > > The problem is that all calls to FntPrint (wither with Gfx.FntID[0] or
> > > Gfx.FntID[1]) all seem to be in the lower part of the screen, i.e.
where
> > the
> > > second (Gfx.FntID[1]) font ID has been opened.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrew.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>